2024 Elections: National Peace Council trains 50 youth peace ambassadors at Dorimon
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2 months ago
Source:
GhanaWeb
The National Peace Council (NPC), a statutory peace institution of Ghana, has trained 50 young people as peace ambassadors in Dorimon in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region, ahead of the 2024 general elections. The training, held on August 23 and 24, 2024, covered interactive knowledge-sharing sessions and practical activities on information literacy, peacebuilding, and social cohesion. The youth were immersed in a two-day workshop aimed to equip them with relevant knowledge in identifying, responding to, and countering hate speech, disinformation, and misinformation. The participants were expected to become ambassadors of peace in the community and to further imbibe the principles of peaceful co-existence among community members especially as the 2024 general elections draw nearer. Speaking to Info Radio at Dorimon, the Executive Secretary of the NPC, Mr.